THE DAWN OF VICTORY
The Dawn Of Victory An Editorial PEACE came to bashed and bleeding Europe this week—5 years, 8 months, and 6 days from that September morning when Adolf Hitler touched a match to the world...
...AS victory dawns, the challenge to America is greater and more compelling than ever—the challenge, as the late Oscar Ameringer put it— "Not to be the richest, the most powerful, and most feared nation on earth, but the torchbearer of all that is good, true, and beautiful on earth—that is the mission of America...
...Douglas MacAr-thur and Admiral Chester Nimitz who have done so much with so little in the Pacific while Nazism and Fascism were being brought to their knees in Europe...
...Hold fast to the words of the Carpenter: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' For life pays in kind, love for love, hate for hate, blow for blow, and song for song...
...No one who ponders the meaning of this moment in history can escape the grim fact that while Hitlerism has been destroyed on the battlefield, not a single cause of Hitlerism has been removed...
...This war against a cult of total hate and total intolerance must not end by Allied adoption of these Hit-lerian doctrines...
...This war against slavery must not end by enslaving the conquered enemy...
...This is our challenge as victory dawns—to complete the job that was begun in the Battles of Britain, Stalingrad...
...This war against the brutal subjugation of small nations must not end with the callous rejection of the principle of self-determination...
...There is hope in men's hearts, and just for a fleeting moment men blot out from their tired minds the picture of a Europe whose soil is ravaged and spirit shattered...
...This war against world domination by the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis must not end by substituting world rule by 3 other Great Powers...
...For even as the armies of Nazism and Fascism were being destroyed on the field of battle and their dictator-leaders were dying, the Class of 1963—the boys who will reach the cannon-fodder age of 18 in that year— was being born...
...This war against a barbarous concept of race superiority must not end with a freezing of the doctrine of white-man rule of the colored peoples of the world...
...This war against a distorted faith in force and armaments must not end with the complete militarization of the victors...
...Rejoicing America salutes Gen...
...THE two cartoons on this page, drawn by America's outstanding cartoonist, Daniel Fitzpatrick, symbolize more powerfully and graphically than can a hundred essays the meaning of this hour of decision in world history...
...This war against those who wanted to destroy democracy must not end by underwriting the extension of totalitarianism...
...Dwight Eisenhower and his officers and men, the British and Russian commands and their gallant troops, Gen...
...Normandy, the Rhine, and the plains of Germany —to complete that job by writing a peace which strikes at the very causes of war, political, social, and most of all, economic...
...And a thankful America remembers, too, that all this could never have happened without the miracle of American production on the farms, in the factories and the mines—a miracle which saw free American producers turn out more materiel than all the rest of the world combined...
...The Dawn Of Victory An Editorial PEACE came to bashed and bleeding Europe this week—5 years, 8 months, and 6 days from that September morning when Adolf Hitler touched a match to the world powder-keg by ordering his murderous legions into neighboring Poland...
...Not victory yet—for there is a war to be won in the Pacific and a peace to be won for the world—but the dawn of victory breaks clear...
...Now—2,319 agonizing days afterward—comes the dawn of victory...
Vol. 9 • May 1945 • No. 20
